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Team Spirit is a gripping account of a race on the edge, and a young skipper's determined journey to victory. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is the ultimate long-distance challenge-a thirty-five-thousand-mile circumnavigation of the globe contested by amateur crews in identical racing yachts-a thrilling test of endurance, skill, focus, and determination. The 2010 winner was led by the youngest and least experienced skipper in the race, twenty-eight-year-old Brendan Hall, and his crew in Spirit of Australia.
This book is Hall's story and readers will learn how his phenomenal win was no accident, but the culmination of expert training, skilled navigation, and an innate leadership quality well beyond his years. Drawing on heretofore untested skills and courage, Hall also heroically came to the aid of an injured skipper in a competing yacht during the race and guided both boats across one of the most feared oceans in the world in the middle of a North Pacific hurricane! Hall's brutally honest, no-holds-barred account is revealing and instructive and resonates with valuable lessons in leadership, management, life lessons, and perseverance."This book offers a rare insight into the adrenaline-fuelled world of ocean racing" ClipperRoundTheWorld.com
| Route map | p. 8 |
| Foreword | p. 10 |
| Preface | p. 12 |
| Leadership | p. 14 |
| The only real training for leadership is leadership | |
| The Race | p. 16 |
| Every artist was first an amateur | |
| Inspiration | p. 20 |
| First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do | |
| Preparation | p. 24 |
| To be prepared is half the victory | |
| Team Spirit | p. 44 |
| If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself | |
| Training | p. 54 |
| We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit | |
| Racing At Last | p. 70 |
| Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success | |
| Judgement | p. 101 |
| A man should learn to sail in all winds | |
| Attitude | p. 128 |
| Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference | |
| Persistence | p. 143 |
| No great achievement is possible without persistent work | |
| Danger | p. 165 |
| He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea | |
| Full Circle | p. 205 |
| It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves | |
| Epilogue | p. 223 |
| The crew of Spirit of Australia | p. 229 |
| Appendix: The entire text of my Team SPIRIT vision | p. 233 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9781408157237
ISBN-10: 1408157233
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 240
Published: 15th July 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.5
x 2.3
Weight (kg): 0.398
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